From Domestic Tranquility, p280.
A free market economy requires the energy and initiative of an individualist who is an entrepreneur who takes responsibility for his actions, is willing to take charge and take chances and has the courage to make his own decisions, acting if necessary, without the security of peer group approval. We once fearlessly described this person as "a real man" ... it is precisely these qualities...that make men less suited to work in a bureaucratic environment.
It is male individuality, exuberance, and aggressiveness that must be most stringently curbed and disciplined to meet the requirements of bureaucratic success. Bureaucracies are more hospitable to the effete, androgynous make who fits the feminist mold of manhood.
P283
It is our traditional bourgeois families, say the Bergers, that are "the one great obstacle against an all-embracing bureaucratization of life", the one means of producing "autonomous, independent-minded individuals" fit for an entrepreneurial rather than a welfare-bureaucratic society. Confirmation of their analysis comes from the many studies of the children who were raised under communal conditions in the Israeli kibbutz system and developed personalities and value systems that "are emphatically collectivist and conformist".
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